Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Analysis of the first genetic engineering attribution challenge

  • Oliver M. Crook,
  • Kelsey Lane Warmbrod,
  • Greg Lipstein,
  • Christine Chung,
  • Christopher W. Bakerlee,
  • T. Greg McKelvey,
  • Shelly R. Holland,
  • Jacob L. Swett,
  • Kevin M. Esvelt,
  • Ethan C. Alley,
  • William J. Bradshaw

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35032-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Identifying the designers of engineered biological sequences would help promote biotechnological innovation while holding designers accountable. Here the authors present the winners of a 2020 data-science competition which improved on previous attempts to attribute plasmid sequences.